Malzahar with Pyke
How to Synergize Malzahar and Pyke
based on 4,032 Malzahar with Pyke pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Pyke
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Advice to Understand How Pyke Will Play
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
Malzahar Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Malzahar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Pyke helps Malzahar perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is an ally to Pyke, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Pyke supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Pyke.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Pyke on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Pyke does a decent job of covering Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Pyke
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Malzahar that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Pyke is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 50.7%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Malzahar and Pyke that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players need to be careful when arranging Pyke comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Malzahar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Malzahar and Pyke together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of protection for burst damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Pyke ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to synergize with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Malzahar and Pyke synergy build include Malignance, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Malzahar combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Pyke than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Pyke with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Malzahar players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Pyke with Malzahar are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.